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How customer service AI startup Neuron7 convinced Keith Block to invest

Five-year-old AI customer service startup Neuron7 just closed an oversubscribed $44 million Series B round led by Keith Block and his year-and-half-old venture firm, Smith Point Capital. Neuron7 sits in one of the most promising areas for AI...

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Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos

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Creating engaging videos isn’t only about the visuals. So much of the appeal of good video content is about the audio, but finding (or maybe even creating) the right audio effects can be a time-consuming process. At its annual MAX conference, Adobe...

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Google supercharges Shopping tab with AI and personalized recommendation feed

After bringing generative AI to Search in 2023, Google is supercharging its Shopping tab with the technology. The company announced on Tuesday that it will use AI to help users shop for products based on exactly what they’re looking for. It also...

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Career Karma founders launch OutRival to help companies build AI agents

Ruben Harris and Timur Meyster, the founders of the upskilling platform Career Karma, announced today the launch of the company OutRival, which offers a service that hosts and lets businesses build their own customer service agents to take on...

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Amplitude buys Command AI to bolster its app engagement offerings

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Amplitude, a publicly traded company that makes digital analytics software, has acquired Command AI, an app user engagement startup formerly known as CommandBar. Most of Command AI’s 30-person, San Francisco-based team will be joining Amplitude....

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New iPad mini brings support for Apple Intelligence and Pencil

Apple Tuesday unveiled a new version of the iPad mini updated for the era of Apple Intelligence. The arrival is powered by the A17 Pro chip, bringing compatibility with Apple Intelligence, the company’s new generative AI offering. The new arrival...

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SimpliSafe’s new outdoor monitoring service combines AI with human agents

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SimpliSafe has announced the addition of Active Guard Outdoor Protection to its monthly subscription offerings. The new tier adds an added layer of 24/7 monitoring to the home security service. Outdoor Protection Pro is available for $50 a month, a...

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Port hosts internal tool hubs for devs

Port, a platform designed to centralize multiple dev tools and workflows in a single dashboard, has raised $35 million in a Series B led by Accel with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners. Yonatan Boguslavski and Zohar Einy, now Port’s CEO,...

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Xscape is building multicolor lasers to connect chips within datacenters

The GPUs and other chips used to train AI communicate with each other inside datacenters through “interconnects.” But those interconnects have limited bandwidth, which limits AI training performance. A 2022 survey found that AI developers...

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Cato Networks adds a Digital Experience Monitoring service to its SASE platform

Since it was founded in 2015, Cato Networks has evangelized the concept of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that combines many of the features of software-defined networking, modern network security tools, and endpoint protection into a...

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Monogoto, an innovator in ‘connectivity as a service,’ raises $27M

Connectivity and connected networks are part and parcel of the way many devices and services operate today, thanks to innovations and expansions in mobile networks, on-device processing, and the cloud. But behind the scenes, there remains a lot of...

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Gladia believes real-time processing is the next frontier of audio transcription APIs

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French startup Gladia, which offers a speech-recognition application programming interface (API), has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round. Essentially, Gladia’s API lets you turn any audio file into text with a high level of accuracy and...

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20VC closes new $400M fund to ‘make Europe great again,’ says Harry Stebbings

Harry Stebbings, the U.K. podcaster who broke into the world of tech with his 20-minute interviews of venture capitalists and founders, parlayed that fame into becoming a VC himself. Now, Stebbings has closed his third investment vehicle, and it’s...

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Oura Ring 4 isn’t an Apple Watch replacement, but that’s not the point

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Oura didn’t invent the smart ring category. It did, however, make all that came before it effectively obsolete. The category dates back more than a decade; TechCrunch wrote about an NFC ring in 2013. The Motiv Ring is of far more recent vintage,...

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Concourse is building AI to automate financial tasks

In a typical organization, finance is one of the most important functions. Yet teams are often bogged down by manual workflows. According to a survey by Paylocity, an HR software provider, 38% of finance teams spend more than a fourth of their time...

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Spotify is adding music video support in 85 additional markets

Music streaming company Spotify said today that it is testing music videos for premium users in 85 additional markets. The company first ran a video experiment in limited markets in March. Spotify originally rolled out music videos in beta in 11...

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India’s Reliance targets 2G users with $13 4G phones offering streaming, payments

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Reliance’s digital arm, Jio Platforms, has launched two new 4G-enabled handsets that offer access to live TV, music and video streaming as well as host the ability to make digital payments, all for a price tag of 1099 rupees ($13), as India’s...

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European cyber insurance startup Stoïk secures $27M

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Cyber risk has become an increasingly important issue for small companies around the world. While many companies try to avoid and mitigate cyber risks, they rarely discuss transferring those risks to a third party. That’s why Stoïk is stepping in...

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Nvidia, the AI chipmaker, just hit another record high

Nvidia shares hit a record high on Monday, closing at $138.07 as Wall Street anticipates earnings updates from Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon on their AI infrastructure spending. The stock’s climb has been stupefying — surging nearly 180%...

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OpenAI snatches up Microsoft generative AI research lead

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Microsoft has lost an AI expert and OpenAI gained one, after the former’s VP of generative AI research Sebastian Bubeck left for the latter. The Information first reported the move, and Reuters also confirmed the departure with Microsoft. We know...

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